Table 2.

Means (standard deviations) for percent cut (% Cut), percent strength loss (% SL) (both in decimal form), and acceleration (m/s2) for each rope and blade (abbreviations are in Table 1). Within each classification and read down a column, means followed by the same letter are not significantly different (Tukey’s HSD, P > 0.05).

RopeN% Cut% SL% SL LS MeanzAcceleration
BLAZE310.49 (0.37)a0.48 (0.44)a0.29 (0.024)a2.96 (0.38)a
BS300.39 (0.34)bc0.40 (0.37)ab0.29 (0.024)a3.17 (0.57)a
PI300.35 (0.35)c0.35 (0.38)b0.26 (0.025)a2.98 (0.52)a
SB300.42 (0.34)abc0.40 (0.37)ab0.26 (0.024)a3.04 (0.61)a
VEL300.48 (0.34)ab0.43 (0.42)ab0.23 (0.024)a2.85 (0.58)a
XTC300.41 (0.34)abc0.42 (0.39)ab0.28 (0.024)a2.96 (0.55)a
Blade
F1300.13 (0.05)a0.02 (0.05)a0.15 (0.023)a3.08 (0.33)ab
F2300.47 (0.21)b0.52 (0.23)b0.36 (0.024)b2.95 (0.62)a
F3310.13 (0.06)a0.03 (0.08)a0.15 (0.023)a3.28 (0.43)b
IB300.40 (0.17)b0.51 (0.19)b0.41 (0.021)b3.15 (0.54)ab
ZUy301.00 (0.00)c1.00 (0.00)cn/a2.50 (0.39)c

  • ↵z The least squares (LS) mean for % SL is the arithmetic mean adjusted for the covariate % Cut; it is followed by the standard error (in parentheses).

  • ↵y Zubat blades were not included in the ANOCOVA because they completely cut through every rope.